I'm back in 1990

Chapter 1142: Just buy me a coffee sometime.

"Huang Zeji, why are you being treated differently? We're exhausted, but you're nowhere to be seen. You're seriously out of touch with the masses." After a day of military training, the three of them were so tired that they couldn't straighten their backs when they returned to the dormitory. At this moment, Huang Zeji walked in from outside.

Huang Zeji smiled and didn't argue with the others, but instead put the drinks he brought back on the table.

"These are for you, have some!"

The three of them were extremely thirsty, and when they saw the drinks, they immediately perked up. Each of them grabbed a bottle and, without thinking twice, opened it and gulped it down.

Song Cheng even shouted loudly, "Awesome!"

After drinking the beverages, the three of them were completely recovered.

Tenggerli asked, "Huang Zeji, where have you been all day? I'm really curious, why didn't the instructors and counselors call your name?"

Huang Zeji sat at his desk, opened his laptop, and said while typing, "Professor Hu has a project that I'd like to participate in, so the department didn't arrange for me to participate in military training."

"Holy crap, that's awesome! You're already working on a project with a professor as a freshman? What kind of project?" Tengger, who was about to throw the bottle, forgot about it and looked on in surprise.

Huang Zeji turned around and smiled apologetically at the three of them: "Sorry! This has to be kept secret; we signed a confidentiality agreement."

The three of them were even more agitated. What was going on? They were also the pride of their region, so why was Huang Zeji able to participate in major projects without having to undergo military training, while they had to suffer through military training?

Gao Yuzhou suddenly realized something and immediately opened his laptop. He entered Huang Zeji's name into the search bar of Soso.com, and the page quickly popped up, displaying all the awards Huang Zeji had ever won.

"Wow, Huang Zeji, I didn't know you were this awesome! Let me see, one, two, three... My God, five national computer science awards!" Gao Yuzhou looked at Huang Zeji in disbelief.

Upon hearing this, Tengger and Song Cheng immediately leaned close to Gao Yuzhou's laptop screen, and what they saw shocked them.

This is because they didn't know that Huang Zeji had been recommended to Tsinghua University; if they did, they would be even more furious.

The difference between them is that Huang Zeji didn't want to go, while the three of them couldn't pass the exam.

After dinner, the four of them walked back from the cafeteria. Huang Zeji happened to see the girl who had patted him on the shoulder that day walking towards them. Moreover, this girl had been sitting with Zeng Wentian when they ate hot pot that day, so Huang Zeji had an idea.

He told Tengger and the other two to go back to their dormitory first, saying he had some things to do. The three of them, without suspecting anything, left first.

After the three left, Huang Zeji caught up with Ou Ya: "Excuse me, please wait a moment."

Ou Ya turned around in surprise, pointing to herself and asking, "Did you call me?"

Huang Zeji nodded and asked directly, "Excuse me, do you know Zeng Wentian?"

Ou Ya looked at the boy who looked just like Zeng Wentian and nodded: "Yes, we share a suite, and he's my next-door neighbor."

Upon hearing this, Huang Zeji said, "Then I'd like to ask you for a favor. I owe him some money, could you please give it to him for me?"

Ou Ya felt something was off about the matter. Since they knew each other, why did she have to help deliver the money to Zeng Wentian?

However, being a kind-hearted person, she agreed: "Okay, but how will you thank me?"

Huang Zeji looked at this rather bold girl and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Ou Ya did this not for any other reason than pure curiosity. She wanted to get to know Huang Zeji and see if she could hear anything from him.

Huang Zeji quickly regained his composure and said, "How do you want me to thank you?"

Ou Ya knew when to stop and didn't make an unreasonable demand: "Give me your phone number, and you can treat me to coffee another day."

Huang Ze thought about it for a moment, and finally agreed: "Okay!"

Back in the international student dormitory, Ou Ya knocked on Zeng Wentian's door.

The door opened quickly: "You're back so soon?"

Ou Ya had no intention of going into the room and directly handed the money Huang Zeji had given her to Zeng Wentian.

Zeng Wentian didn't understand what Ou Ya meant for a moment, and looked puzzled.

"That day we had hot pot, and you paid for someone else's bill, right? Today that person ran into me and asked me to bring the money to you." Ou Ya said while observing Zeng Wentian's expression.

Zeng Wentian calmly accepted the money: "Understood!"

Ou Ya had completed her task, but she showed no sign of leaving. She continued to block Zeng Wentian's dormitory entrance, her curiosity completely piqued. These two clearly knew each other, yet they insisted on pretending not to, and even asked her to act as a middleman to help repay the money. How interesting.

Ou Ya tentatively asked, "Do you... know that guy?"

Unfortunately, Zeng Wentian didn't give her a direct answer: "I've brought the money, thank you. If there's nothing else..."

Although the words were not finished, it was clear that she was being asked to leave. Although Ou Ya really wanted to know, she couldn't very well stay at the dormitory entrance any longer.

She had no choice but to return to her room dejectedly. Then she turned on her laptop and sent a message to her best friend in Malaysia, Lin Siyin.

"Major discovery! The Singaporean guy who lives next door to me and the guy I mistook for someone else definitely know each other!"

It seemed Lin Siyin wasn't online; about seven or eight minutes later, she replied: "And then?"

Ou Ya replied instantly: "Then I asked him, but he ignored me and kicked me out."

Lin Siyin sent an eye-rolling emoji: "Can you please get rid of this gossipy habit? What does it matter to you whether they know each other or not?"

Ou Ya was furious! Who's the one who loves gossip the most? And they even turned the tables on her.

She angrily typed on the keyboard: "There must be a story behind this."

Lin Siyin replied quickly: "Even if there's a story, it's theirs. Why are you getting involved?"

"I'm so curious, when did you change your ways? I'm not trying to flatter you, but if you encountered this situation, I guarantee you'd be even more gossipy than me."

"I'm not chatting anymore, someone's here to pick me up, bye!" Lin Siyin replied to the message and then went offline.

Enraged, Ou Ya cursed in her dorm that the boy she was going on a date with her best friend tonight was an ugly monster.

The military training continued for the next few days, but international students were exempt from it. They were currently engaged in language learning, but for Zeng Wentian and Ou Ya, this language learning was simply a waste of their time.

Huang Zeji, meanwhile, was in a computer room staring at a computer screen displaying lines of code.